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Genesis 32:24-32 New English Translation (NET)

24. So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

25. When the man saw that he could not defeat Jacob, he struck the socket of his hip so the socket of Jacob’s hip was dislocated while he wrestled with him.

26. Then the man said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” “I will not let you go,” Jacob replied, “unless you bless me.”

27. The man asked him, “What is your name?” He answered, “Jacob.”

28. “No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him, “but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”

29. Then Jacob asked, “Please tell me your name.” “Why do you ask my name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.

30. So Jacob named the place Peniel, explaining, “Certainly I have seen God face to face and have survived.”

31. The sun rose over him as he crossed over Penuel, but he was limping because of his hip.

32. That is why to this day the Israelites do not eat the sinew which is attached to the socket of the hip, because he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip near the attached sinew.

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